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A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, and detectives are investigating whether the violence is connected to a landlord-tenant dispute, state police said Sunday....

Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis fell to his death from a building in Los Angeles – moments after he allegedly beat his landlady, an 81-year-old woman, to death, authorities say. Lewis, 28, who played Kip "Half-Sack" Epps on the FX show and who once dated Katy Perry, was found lying in a driveway in the Los Feliz neighborhood near Hollywood on Wednesday, while a woman identified as Catherine Davis was found dead of apparently blunt force trauma inside the building.

Apartment landlords continue to have the best of all worlds as rents go higher and vacancies fall.

In New York City, bedbugs are nothing to worry about. That is, unless you visit department stores, movie theaters, hospitals, Lincoln Center, the Wall Street Journal offices or any of the numerous apartments housing the bloodsucking creatures.

Apartment vacancies hit a 30-year high of 8% last year, and landlords cut rents 3% to attract tenants.

A landlord was fined nearly $10,000 for removing the toilet and other fixtures from a basement apartment to get his tenant to move out.